The biggest hospital project in the history of Denmark, the New University Hospital in Aarhus, is being added to the existing Aarhus University Hospital in Skejby to create one overall hospital complex.

The hospital will be as big as a Danish provincial town, with the same layout as an archetypical town, with an elevated, densely built-up centre. It will also be Aarhus' largest workplace. The major hospital complex is structured as a town, with a hierarchy of quarters, streets, plazas and squares as the basis for a diverse and dynamic green urban centre, and with intuitive way-finding for its users. Systematic use of "Knowledge and Evidence-Based Design" has allowed the concept of "healing architecture" to influence the physical design of the hospital. From the design of single-bed wards, to the use of daylight and light inflows, and the design of the landscape and garden spaces. The hospital is designed to flexibly meet future requirements of technology, treatment methods and working methods.

The overall complex is divided into professional communities with their own identities. This ensures a clear structure, which has three elements: a two-storey base with treatment functions; wards above the base up to a height of four storeys; and in the middle the coming "Forum" central arrival area, where public functions are located at the foot of three multi-storey blocks.

The Emergency Centre was officially opened in February 2017 and comprises over 150,000 m² of the project's 375,000 m² in total.

Competition proposal for new acute hospital where architecture blends seamlessly into the natural surroundings to create a pleasant place for patients, a functional workplace and a recreational oasis for everyone living in the local area.